PDC 2010

The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the definitive developer event focused on the technical strategy of the Microsoft developer platform. Attendees come from around the world to learn about the Microsoft developer platform directly from the people who make it happen.

The PDC is for developers, architects and technology leaders who are involved in making strategic technology decisions for their company or organization.

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Why care about C++0x lambda functions? Syntactically, they are nothing but sugar for function objects. However, they are an essential and enabling sugar that will change the way we will write C++ code more often than most people realize. This talk will cover what lambda functions are and how to use...

Lots of great open source software is available, but it’s hard to figure out the best choice, get it, set it up, run it and update it. Visual Studio 2010 just came out but now we’ve got ASP.NET MVC 3, Razor, EF Magic Unicorn, SQL Compact Edition, HTML 5 and lots more coming at us fast. How can I easily...

Join Mark Russinovich, now working on Windows Azure, for an under the hood tour of the internals of Microsoft’s new cloud OS. Topics will include datacenter architecture, cloud OS architecture, and what goes on behind the scenes when you deploy a service, a machine fails or comes online and a role fails...

Learn about the key investments we’re making in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). See the WF improvements we’re working on for workflow authoring, hosting and management. Learn how we’re bringing WF to the cloud, and how WF and Windows Azure AppFabric will provide a great middle-tier platform for building,...

Programming today exhibits a voracious appetite for information, and one of the most important trends in languages today is to make access to data and services fluent and seamless. Come and see the latest from the F# team, and learn how we are extending F# to embed the analytical programmer instantly...

So you have a cool idea for a game. This session covers some of the less obvious things you will need to know to turn your idea into reality using XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone. Topics include how to choose the best orientation and resolution, how game content differs from typical productivity or...

Are you building Web APIs for reaching any device, enabling mash-ups, or providing highly connected Web experiences? Then come to this session and learn how to build Web APIs your way in Windows Azure. We put you in control of patterns (REST, pub/sub, RPC, Hypertext) and formats (XML, JSON, URIs, Atom,...

SQL Azure provides an information platform that you can easily provision, configure, and use to power your cloud applications. In this session we will explore the patterns and practices that help you develop and deploy applications that can exploit the full power of the elastic, highly available, and...

Learn how to write better code and unit tests by using Code Contracts, Pex and Moles. Code Contracts provide a set of tools for design-by-contract programming. Pex is an advanced unit-testing tool that uses automated program exploration to intelligently create unit tests with high code coverage. Moles...

Signing users in and granting them access is a core function of almost every cloud-based application. In this session we will show you how to simplify your user experience by enabling users to sign in with an existing account such as a Windows Live ID, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, or on-premises Active...